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‘Raaz Reboot’ hasn’t leaked, it was bogus file: Vikram Bhatt

Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt on Wednesday denied that his upcoming
film ‘Raaz Reboot’ has leaked online. He said the leaked matter was in fact, a
bogus file in its name which was made available online to warn miscreants.

Reports of the movie being leaked surfaced on Tuesday night
and #RaazRebootLeaked trended on Twitter. The film’s lead actor Emraan Hashmi
immediately posted a message on the micro-blogging site requesting his fans to
watch the film in theatres only. He also wrote a heart-felt not against piracy.

Speaking over phone to news agency IANS, Vikram Bhatt said, “It's
not really leaked. We put in a bogus file because we know what's been happening
for the past few films, and we have understood that."

The director added that he was astonished to see that within
10 to 15 minutes of the news that the film has been leaked online, 5,000
downloads had happened. "5,000 downloads of a film which was not even
'Raaz Reboot'. So this is how Torrents is destroying the business. Now this
(planting a bogus file) is our way of warning those people to stay away from our
content. So, no, the film has not leaked,” he clarified.

Vikram Bhatt also doesn’t think that anybody from the censor
board is behind leaking the films. “I don’t think that the censor board is
leaking copies. I know I have an ongoing fight with the censor board, but that
doesn’t mean that I am going to stand up and say that ‘Censor Board leaked the
copy’. That’s not true.”